Kay Lawson

How Political Parties Work

Perspectives from Within

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This important volume examines the inner dynamics of political parties with the intention of finding out how parties really work. Specialists on Germany, France, New Zealand, Norway, Japan, India, Belgium, Israel, Poland, Britain, and the United States provide analyses of the ways in which power is developed and exercised in those countries--who is trying to do what, within the party and by means of the party, and how successful they are. Political parties are not monoliths, as they have tended to be treated in party system research; rather, they have differentiated internal structures, layers, and levels, and on each of these the motivations and objectives of the participants may be very different. By looking within, these authors provide an understanding of the internal play of party power and why parties function as they do within the broader political arena.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Praeger
• Seitenzahl: 332
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Oktober 1994
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 665g
• ISBN-13: 9780275943936
• ISBN-10: 0275943933
• Artikelnr.: 22017477

Autorenporträt

Kay Lawson is professor emerita of political science at San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction by Kay Lawson How Internal Party Democracy Works--or Does Not
"Basisdemokratie" and Political Realities: The German Green Party by Thomas
Poguntke The Formal vs. Informal Rules of French Political Parties by
Andrew Appleton Overcoming the Iron Law?: The Role of Policy Committees in
the New Zealand Labor Party by Geoffrey Debnam How Leadership and
Organization Interact IParty Organization as a Network of Relations: The
Republican Party of Illinois by Mildred Schwartz Party Leadership in Theory
and in Norway: An Entrepreneurial Perspective by Karen Strom Factionalism
in the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan by David Morris How Internal
Organization Affects External Performance Party Organization and Policy
Making in a Changing Environment: The Indian National Congress by Subatra
Mitra The Internal Dynamics of Local Party Sections in Belgium and Their
External Effectiveness by Kris Deschouwer Interest Parties: The Thin Line
between Groups and Parties in the Israeli Electoral Process by Yael Yishai
How External Events Cause Changes in Internal Organization Political
Parties in the New Czech and Slovak Federal Republic: Their New Legal
Framework and Their Actual Activities by Josef Blahoz From Communist Party
to "The Socialdemocracy of the Polish Republic" by Jerzy Wiater The Sources
of Party Change: The Social Democratic Parties of Britain, France, Germany
and Spain by Frank Wilson Conclusion Toward a Theory of How Political
Parties Work by Kay Lawson Index